| Samuel Butler - 1835 - 518 páginas
...never was defeated, Nor from their oaths and faith retreated ; For loyalty is still the same, Whether it win or lose the game ; True as the dial to the sun, 175 Altho' it be not shin'd upon.6 matched tricksters, who play with state affairs, and by only cavilling... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1835 - 328 páginas
...never was defeated, Nor from their oaths and faith retreated ; For loyalty is still the same, Whether it win or lose the game ; True as the dial to the sun, 175 Although it be not shin'd upon. But when these Brethren in evil, Their adversaries, and the devil,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 608 páginas
...retire in disgust, if not actually change. But " Loyalty is still the same ; Whether it lose or win the game ; True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon." ' Derby's loyalty was of that exalted, pure, and simple character, which was ready to... | |
| Hartley Coleridge - 1836 - 774 páginas
...man retire in disgust, if not actually change. But Loyalty is still the same Whether it lose or win the game, True as the dial to the sun Although it be not shone upon. Derby's loyalty was of that exalted, pure, and simple character, which was ready to suffer... | |
| 1840 - 948 páginas
...his lifetime, was largely requited for his loyalty, said — Our loyalty is still the same, Whether it win or lose the game ; True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon. We see now a very different race of Tories. We have lived to see a new party rear its head... | |
| Parliament proc, Vict - 1840 - 162 páginas
...all circumstances. It was the sentiment of a Tory poet that — " Monarchy is still the same, Whether it win or lose the game ; True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon." (Hear, hear.) We now had a monster of a party, made up of the worst parts of Caval'ers... | |
| Edward Mangin - 1841 - 234 páginas
...you frown upon it—die." Part III. Canto ii. line 173 :— " For loyalty is still the same, "Whether it win or lose the game ; True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shined upon. " These, and a few more passages, seem as if thrown in by Butler to form a happy contrast with the... | |
| Edward Mangin - 1841 - 194 páginas
...you frown upon it—die." Part III. Canto ii. line 173 :— " For loyalty is still the same, Whether it win or lose the game ; True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shined upon." These, and a few more passages, seem as if thrown in by Butler to form a happy contrast with the general... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1847 - 592 páginas
...the changeful politics and uncertain friendships of our own day, to that stedfast and undying flame of loyalty which glowed in the breast of the ancient...virtues of Charles I., which could cheer the captive loyalist through all his dungeon's gloom : — 60 Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron barres... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1847 - 606 páginas
...Cavaliers. How lofty seem such characters as Ormond's, of whom Charles II. used to say, that ill treat that man as he might, he never could make him his..., True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not ahined upon '" And how touching that meditation on the virtues of Charles I., which could cheer the... | |
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